YOU wouldn’t want to be a person down on their luck under the federal government.
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I’ve been in full-time employment for 25 years.
I once took redundancy from an employer but started a new job less than a week later.
I have been fortunate enough to never find myself without a job but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen, one day.
The 60 workers let go by Bruck recently — without entitlements — probably didn’t think they’d be on the scrapheap either. But it can happen to anyone.
The presumption by this federal government that every person who is unemployed is sitting on the couch and living some kind of good life on taxpayers’ dime is an insult to a great many people.
There will always be a bad element when it comes to welfare payments — some people really do not want to work, even though they are able, but that doesn’t make every jobless person a dole bludger.
The Abbott government seems happy to demonise all unemployed people.
It is callous, when it comes to anyone down on their luck.
— CATRIONA MEADE,
Albury